Biography

Dr Cindy Davids joined the Law School in 2010 from her position as Academic Director and Associate Professor at the Macquarie University Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. Prior to this she taught at Latrobe University across a wide array of law related areas, in Police Studies at Deakin and she has also held seconded positions in Sth Australia and overseas. Since joining the Law School she has taught ‘Law for Managers’, Financial Crime specialising in Bribery and Corruption, Police and the Law and Criminal Procedure.

Her Ph.D is from the University of NSW Law School and she has a Masters in Policy and Law, and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Latrobe University. In addition she has a Diploma of Education (Cindy was a secondary school teacher before moving into academia) and a Post Graduate qualification from Hong Kong University in the area of Corruption Studies. Her research interests encompass police and public sector integrity issues, conflict of interest, misconduct in public office, corruption, financial crime, international policing and law enforcement and more general criminal procedure issues. Her applied research has often involved large scale studies around complaint investigation and analysis. Most of this work has required access to sensitive data and significant security clearances.

Her book on conflict of interest in policing was based on an examination of ten years of Victoria Police internal investigation files and was conducted in collaboration and cooperation with Victoria Police and the Victorian Ombudsman’s Office. Subsequent to this her applied research has involved collaborative projects with the Victorian Ombudsman, Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police. Associate Professor Davids has published widely however much of her recent work has focused on issues of foreign bribery and corruption.

Awards

Macquarie University Innovation Award for Innovative Partnership. Project: Understanding Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector (2009) A collaboration between the Victorian Ombudsman’s Office and Associate Professor Cindy Davids and Dr. Gordon Boyce

2000 Allen Austin Bartholomew prize from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology best article published in the journal for 1998-1999. (co-author Professor Linda Hancock)

2012 British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Prize for the best paper published in Accounting Education: An International Journal, volume 21 (2012). Paper: Boyce G, Greer S, Blair B, and Davids C. (2012) “Expanding the Horizons of Accounting Education: Incorporating Social and Critical Perspectives”.

Recipient of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Prize for the best paper in volume 21 (2012).

Associate of the Rutgers Institute on Anti-Corruption Studies (RIACS), School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Member – Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology

Publications

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2015

Integrity, accountability, and public trust: Issues raised by the unauthorised use of confidential police information

C Davids, G Boyce

(2015), pp. 86-110, Accountability of policing, Abingdon, Eng., B1

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Combating bribery of foreign officials: a counter corruption strategy in developed countries